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An archive of prayers for the wellbeing of travelers, or perhaps more broadly, on the theme of travel by different means between coordinates, states of awareness, and states of existence.

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תפילת הדרך | Tefilat haDerekh, a traveler’s prayer for safety and peace (trans. Rabbi David Seidenberg, neohasid·org)

In this Tefilat haDerekh (the prayer for travel), I’ve made a synthesis of Ashkenazi and Sefardi nusaḥ. Even though the translation is pretty close to literal in most places, it comes across as an extraordinary and activist prayer for peace. So I think of this prayer not just as a prayer for the beginning a physical journey, but for any spiritual journey, and especially for any campaign or action for justice and peace that a person or group might undertake. When applied to activism, the “enmity and ambush and theft and predation” we ask to be rescued from could also be interpreted as hatred, deceit, jealousy, and aggression, i.e., the kinds of feelings that cause people to work against each other, even within an organization, instead of working together. I first used this version of the prayer at the beginning of a tour of Israel and Palestine focused on the human rights and non-violent resistance, when the group passed through the first checkpoint of the trip.

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תפילת הדרך tefilat haderekh, תחינות teḥinot

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David Seidenberg (translation), Neohasid·org and Unknown

תפלת הים | Prayer for a Seaship Voyage, or During a Storm at Sea (1837)

A prayer for those traveling over water on a sea or ocean voyage.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., ocean, תחינות teḥinot, travel by water, traveler

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Isaac Leeser (translation), David de Aaron de Sola, Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prière quand on se met en voyage | Prayer when you go on a journey, by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

A prayer for travel.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Protection, French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot

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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Prière pour une personne qui se met en voyage | Prayer on behalf of a person who goes on a journey, by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

A prayer on behalf of a friend or relative on their travels.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Protection, French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot

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Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Gebet während eines Sturmes auf der See | Prayer during a storm on the sea, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer offered during an ocean voyage during dangerous inclement weather conditions.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, ocean, prayers on ships, storm, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, travel by water

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Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Nach zurückgelegter Seereise | [Prayer] after the sea voyage, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer offered after a difficult ocean voyage.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, מודים Modim, ocean, prayers on ships, storm, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, thanksgiving, travel by water

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Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Gebet einer Mutter, deren Kind in der Fremde ist | Prayer of a mother whose child is in a foreign land, a teḥinah by Fanny Neuda (1855)

“Gebet einer Mutter, deren Kind in der Fremde ist” by Fanny Neuda was first published in her collection of teḥinot, Stunden der Andacht. ein Gebet⸗ und Erbauungs-buch für Israels Frauen und Jungfrauen (1855), p. 90. In the 1864 Judeo-German edition, it is found on pp. 114-116.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, protection, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

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Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Gebet einer Frau, deren Mann auf Reisen ist | Prayer of a woman whose husband is travelling, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer of a wife whose spouse is away from home, travelling.

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Travel, Marriage

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., anxiety, Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

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Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Während einer Seefahrt | [Prayer] during an ocean voyage, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer for travel offered during an ocean voyage.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, prayers on ships, Psalms 8, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German, travel by water

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Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Prayer During a Storm at Sea, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer for when traveling conditions become perilous on an ocean voyage.

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Travel

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, ocean, prayers on ships, תחינות teḥinot, travel by water

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Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Wife’s Prayer whose Husband is on a Journey, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer of a wife on behalf of her husband traveling.

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Travel, Marriage

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

On Taking a Journey (CCAR 1951)

“On Taking a Journey” is the first prayer in the “Personal Prayers for Special Occasions” section of the Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951), p. 41.

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Travel

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, protection, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

תְּפִילַת הוֹלְכִים לְאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה | Prayer for Those Leaving Home for University, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

A prayer for the safety and success of those leaving home to go off to college and university. When children go off to college, parents can feel worried about the future of their children. Empty-nest syndrome can set in and spiritual guidance is often needed. This prayer uses the idioms of Biblical and siddur language to create a text for parents who worry about their children’s future as they head off on their own. It could be said 49 days after Tekufat Tammuz in the diaspora (August 28 or 29 after a leap year – approximately the time when college terms begin in the US) or on the first Saturday after Shmini Atzeret ba’aretz (approximately when college terms begin in Israel)

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Learning, Study, and School, Travel, Separation

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., children, college, North America, parents, students, supplications, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

תחנה פֿאַר צוריקקערן זיך נאָך דורות צו המקום | A Tkhine for Returning to a Place After Generations, by Maia Brown

A tkhine written to return to an ancestral place for the first time — especially diaspora homes that hold lineages of rich life as well as histories of flight and genocide.

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Travel

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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Ancestors, cemetery prayers, return, survival, תחינות teḥinot, the Holocaust, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

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Maia Brown

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